If you are planning a visit to Ely, then why not take a look at the new Visit Ely Guide. It is packed with useful information about Ely and the District, which will help you make the most of your visit. Find out about attractions in the area, where to stay, events happening through the year, where to eat, plus much more.

Tim Lang’s ten ‘new fundamentals’ Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University , member of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission and president of Garden Organic , is the leading UK researcher on food security. In the last 30-40 years there has been enormous investment in what is called efficiency. That means there is no spare. The food system is like a fully stretched rubber band, If it breaks, there would be a sharp rebound. I don’t think a systemic failure is imminent but it is very vulnerable to shocks. They could be technical shocks, ecological shocks or human disease shocks. We don’t have a sustainable UK agriculture base at the moment and we need one In these videos Tim Lang highlights ten of his “new fundamentals” Oil Water Climate change Biodiversity Demographics Urbanisation Labour Nutrition transition Health care costs Battles of power Tim Lang’s new book is “Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society” buy it from Toppings , your local Ely book shop. Transition Ely food group Visit the our food group page for more information on what we can do to increase the resilience of our local food system.

A French Market is coming to Ely this weekend to tantalise taste buds. Exotic wines, delicious baguettes, sausages from the charcuterie are just some of the delicacies as 25 traders from Normandy come to tempt East Cambridgeshire residents on the 15 and 16 May.

The Sunday Times has listed Ely Folk Festival among it’s 100 top music festivals.
The preview includes events ‘from big beasts to boutique, family-friendly to hedonists-only, in-town to back-of-beyond and even overseas’. The festival is one of only five folk music festivals that have made it into the top 100.

It is just not the Sunday Times that has recognised that the festival is one of the best around – canny punters have been snapping up tickets for this year’s festival with sales so far outstripping previous years.

With a bill that includes Peatbog Faeries, Edward II, Baka Beyond, Eric Bogle and John Munro, and Tanglefoot, Ely Folk Festival 2009 is set to be a highlight of the festival circuit this year.

Information on the festival and details on how to purchase tickets can be found on the festival website: elyfolk.co.uk.

http://elyonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/eol-logo-1.jpg00Karl Bedingfieldhttp://elyonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/eol-logo-1.jpgKarl Bedingfield2009-05-17 19:00:002009-05-19 18:24:58Can you turn that down a bit?

http://elyonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/eol-logo-1.jpg00Karl Bedingfieldhttp://elyonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/eol-logo-1.jpgKarl Bedingfield2009-05-18 19:00:002009-05-19 18:20:02Fancy going for a walk at the weekend?